The History of May Day in South Africa
… 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, in the United States of America and Canada resolved that … campaign. It served to consolidate an alliance of the anti-apartheid forces of the 1950s composed of the ANC, the SAIC, … South African Trade Unions (COSATU) , formed in December 1985, demanded that May Day be recognised as a public …